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Journal of Medical Systems
Published in: Journal of Medical Systems 1/2014

01-01-2014

Mobile Clinical Decision Support Systems and Applications: A Literature and Commercial Review

Authors: Borja Martínez-Pérez, Isabel de la Torre-Díez, Miguel López-Coronado, Beatriz Sainz-de-Abajo, Montserrat Robles, Juan Miguel García-Gómez

Published in: Journal of Medical Systems | Issue 1/2014

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Abstract

The latest advances in eHealth and mHealth have propitiated the rapidly creation and expansion of mobile applications for health care. One of these types of applications are the clinical decision support systems, which nowadays are being implemented in mobile apps to facilitate the access to health care professionals in their daily clinical decisions. The aim of this paper is twofold. Firstly, to make a review of the current systems available in the literature and in commercial stores. Secondly, to analyze a sample of applications in order to obtain some conclusions and recommendations. Two reviews have been done: a literature review on Scopus, IEEE Xplore, Web of Knowledge and PubMed and a commercial review on Google play and the App Store. Five applications from each review have been selected to develop an in-depth analysis and to obtain more information about the mobile clinical decision support systems. Ninety-two relevant papers and 192 commercial apps were found. Forty-four papers were focused only on mobile clinical decision support systems. One hundred seventy-one apps were available on Google play and 21 on the App Store. The apps are designed for general medicine and 37 different specialties, with some features common in all of them despite of the different medical fields objective. The number of mobile clinical decision support applications and their inclusion in clinical practices has risen in the last years. However, developers must be careful with their interface or the easiness of use, which can impoverish the experience of the users.
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Metadata
Title
Mobile Clinical Decision Support Systems and Applications: A Literature and Commercial Review
Authors
Borja Martínez-Pérez
Isabel de la Torre-Díez
Miguel López-Coronado
Beatriz Sainz-de-Abajo
Montserrat Robles
Juan Miguel García-Gómez
Publication date
01-01-2014
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Journal of Medical Systems / Issue 1/2014
Print ISSN: 0148-5598
Electronic ISSN: 1573-689X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-013-0004-y

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